BROWSING: FWA

India initiates process to award additional 5G spectrum: Report

Through this process, the DoT aims to unlock and sell a total of 5,500 megahertz of spectrum India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has formed an internal group with the aim of developing a plan to include the 37.0-42.5 GHz range as international mobile telecommunications (IMT)...

Cradlepoint extends its NetCloud network-as-a-service offering

The Network-as-a-Service offering adds secure connect and will sport advanced SD-WAN and ZTNA by the end of the year Wireless WAN provider Cradlepoint on Tuesday announced NetCloud Exchange, which it described as an extension to the company’s cloud-managed Network as a Service (NaaS) offering. NetCloud...

Kajeet, Samsung to deliver private 5G network solutions in the US

The education sector will be the first area of focus for the Kajeet and Samsung collaboration   Private wireless and IoT company Kajeet said it is currently collaborating with Samsung Electronics America to deploy Kajeet's private 5G platform with Samsung’s Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) solutions. With...

Quickline and Mavenir claim UK’s first 5G SA O-RAN FWA solution in shared spectrum

Quickline said it has been testing its own fully cloud-native O-RAN solution for the last two years Rural broadband provider Quickline Communications, which is working with Mavenir, claims to be the first internet service provider in the U.K. to commercially deliver a cloud-based 5G Standalone...

Mediacom inks FWA RAN deal with Samsung

CBRS is key to “helping to close the digital divide” – Samsung Samsung announced Friday that Mediacom Communications will deploy Samsung’s Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum wireless networking solutions for its 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service. The deal includes Samsung’s 4G and 5G-ready...

Verizon deploys additional C-Band spectrum for 5G

Verizon said the new move allows it to offer 5G home and business internet services to more customers across the country Verizon says it has started to expand its 5G service with the deployment of 100 megahertz of C-Band spectrum in many markets across the...

America Movil reaches 40 Mexican cities with 5G: CEO

America Movil aims to reach 100 Mexican cities with its 5G offering by the end of 2021 Mexican telecom group America Movil’s 5G network currently reaches 40 cities across the country, the company’s CEO Daniel Hajj said during a conference call with investors. The executive...

5G to account for 40% of mobile lines in India by end-2027: Ericsson

The Government of India expects to award 5G frequencies during July 5G is projected to account for almost 40% of mobile subscriptions in India – 500 million – by the end of 2027, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report. According to the Swedish vendor, even...

5G to reach a penetration of 90% in North America in 2027: Ericsson

Ericsson noted that only around 20 carriers globally had already launched SA 5G networks by the end of 2021 5G subscription penetration in North America is forecasted to reach 90% in 2027, according to the latest edition of Ericsson Mobility Report. The report also predicts that...

Nokia deploys local 5G network in Japan

Nokia noted the solution includes the Japanese model of FastMile 5G Gateway, which was developed especially for local 5G use cases in Japan   Nokia announced that NS Solutions deployed Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) and 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technology as part of a...

US Cellular selects Ericsson, Nokia for C-band deployment

US Cellular expects to activate its mid-band spectrum for customer use by the end of 2023 US Cellular announced new agreements with Nordic vendors Ericsson and Nokia to boost the carrier's 5G network infrastructure. US Cellular and Ericsson inked a deal which includes the deployment of...

Rakuten Mobile aims to launch FWA services in Japan by end-2022: CEO

Rakuten Mobile’s FWA will run on both Sub-6 GHz and mmWave spectrum Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile expects to launch fixed wireless access (FWA) services in Japan in December, the telco’s CEO Tareq Amin said during a call with journalists. “I’m just waiting for our CPE...

Vodafone and Dell Technologies enable a new ecosystem with Open RAN

Vodafone plans to deploy Open RAN across 30% of its European footprint by 2030 Vodafone has been a staunch advocate of the innovation potential represented by Open RAN. Indeed, at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the multinational operator committed to deploying Open RAN...

Quectel White Paper: Why fixed wireless access can provide a fiber alternative with rapid rollout

New Quectel white paper explains why fixed wireless access is recognised as a fiber alternative Fixed wireless access (FWA) is not a new concept; solutions have been around for more than two decades but have only had limited applications because performance has been too...

Airspan reflects on private networks, FWA innovation at MWC Barcelona

‘The launching point is now,’ says Airspan President & COO about private 5G networks At this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona, Airspan’s President & COO Glenn Laxdal urged RCR Wireless News to simply look around the show in order to see the “tremendous amount...

Is mmWave key to consumer 5G success?

Finding the right match for mmWave in consumer 5G means both identifying business cases and building technology to support them.

1&1 to accelerate construction of Germany’s fourth mobile network: Report

1&1 said it will initially provide FWA services through its 5G network German operator 1&1 announced plans to speed up the deployment of the fourth mobile network in Germany, including the deployment of 1,000 5G base stations this year. In an interview with German newspaper Die...

Managing the next phase of 5G FWA

5G has changed the calculus for how broadband is delivered, and now the speed and quality of wireless broadband is competing successfully against traditional fixed services. Tier 1 operators are adding tens of thousands of new FWA customers each month, and operators of all...

Nokia delivers 4G FWA to rural California school district, bringing ‘much needed connectivity’

The two-phase 4G FWA deployment will serve the distance learning needs of 2,400 students, according to Nokia Nokia completed the first phase of 4G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) deployment meant to provided better internet connectivity to underserved students in the Dos Palos Oro Loma (DPOL)...

It’s (already) time to re-think millimeter wave and FWA

There was a point in early 5G development where 5G was practically synonymous with millimeter-wave spectrum: Super-fast, but assumed to be for short-range use only, with propagation issues and RF and antenna complexity that hadn’t yet been sufficiently addressed in the engineering of network...

5G build-out, private network eSIMs, vertical market spread (Druid Software on 2022)

Private FWA networks The continued investment from the US government – with the Biden infrastructure bill being the most recent example – will continue to provide vital funding to address the digital divide in the US. This will see that fixed-wireless access (FWA) deployments are...

Nokia to conduct 5G SA trial with Chubu Telecommunications in Japan

Nokia announced that it is conducting a 5G Standalone (SA) network trial with Chubu Telecommunications (ctc), a subsidiary of KDDI in Japan. For the trial, Nokia is supplying its latest AirScale product portfolio and Compact Mobility Unit (CMU) to support both 5G indoor and outdoor...

Nokia Webinar: Guaranteeing the best service with FWA

Fixed wireless access (FWA) is – at long last – a viable tool in the toolkit, thanks to a combination of technological advances and shifting market trends. Both mobile and converged operators are in an excellent position to use their licensed wireless spectrum and...

Mediacom taps Ericsson for rural CBRS fixed wireless

Mediacom began testing CBRS applications in 2019, and spent almost $30 million for 576 licenses in the PALs spectrum auction As the U.S. government funnels billions of dollars into rural broadband, Ericsson and Mediacom Communications have announced a partnership aimed at extending broadband services...